Indicia holder for cosmetic containers



Feb. 11, 1941; A MAINZER 2,231,364

INDICIA HOLDER Fon cosMETIc CONTAINERS y Filed June 27, 1940 INVENTORl5' T /r//mr Mainzer BY m/\ ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 11, 1941 UNITEDsTATEs PATENT orties INDICTA HOLDER Fon cosMETIc CONTAINERS tion of NewYork Application June 27, 1940, Serial No. 342,667

2 Claims.

My invention relates to a holder for monograms, initials, or otherindicia for cosmetic containers of the kind typified by lipstick holdersin which the lipstick may be retracted and protracted.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a holder constructionby means of which initials, monograms or other indicia, hereinafterbrieiiy termed initials for purposes of brevity, may be readily insertedand removed.

The modern trend in the sale of cosmetic holders is to provide thepurchaser with an article disclosing his or her initials. If theseinitials were an integral part of the article it is obvious that a verygreat number of each kind of articles would have to be kept in `stock tosatisfy the demand. To overcome this feature I have devised aconstruction by which any desired initials or combination of initialsmay be quickly and readily inserted in position in the article, thusenabling the seller to carry but a normal stock of the particulararticle and still be in position to supply a practically unlimitednumber of initials or monograms.

For purposes of simplicity of description I will assume that myinvention relates specifically to a lipstick holder although it Will beobvious that the invention is equally applicable to a great number ofother devices.

I accomplish the object of my invention by providing such a lipstickholder with a removable sleeve having orices through which initials aredisplayed and in which the initials are se- D curely, yet removably,retained.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1is a side elevational view of a lipstick holder showing two initials inplace;

Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional View substantially on the line 2-2of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical sectional View on the line 3-3 of Fig.1.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on the 45 line 4--4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a detail view, partly broken away, of the cap of the lipstickholder with the initial holding sleeve in place; and

Fig. 6 is an elevation of an initial.

Referring to the drawing, Ill denotes the body of a tubular lipstickholder and II the neck thereof. The neck and body are bounded by areenforcing bead I2. The body Ill contains the lipstick and themechanism for protracting and retracting the same, none of which hasbeen illustrated inasmuch as it forms no part of the present invention.

The lipstick holder is normally closed by a cap comprising the headportion or dome I3 and the skirt portion I4 which has a friction fitwith the external surface of the neck I I. The dome I3 and skirt I4 areconnected by a reenforcing bead I5. It will be noted that the neck II isof smaller external diameter than the body Ill in order that the skirtI4 of the cap may fit on the neck without undue bulge. The parts so` fardescribed, except for the arrangement of the beads are more or lesscommon construction.

The initial holder of my invention comprises a sleeve IE designed toengage the outer surface of the skirt I4. When the cap is in position onthe body of the lipstick holder, i. e., when the lipstick holder isclosed, the sleeve is positioned between the beads I2 and I5. Thissleeve has a friction fit with the outer surface of the skirt I4 and isheld securely on the skirt, so that when the lipstick holder is openedby removal of the cap from the body the sleeve remains firmly inposition.

I form in the sleeve IS an orifice or a plurality of orifices I 1,through which the indicia, as typied by the initial I8 of Fig. 6, may bedisplayed. The upper and lower edges of the oriflee or orifices II arebounded by outwardly turned ledges or flanges I9 which constitute seatsfor the upper and lower edges of the initials I8. This feature is bestillustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

It is desirable to divide the orifices I'I into at least two parts by anintermediate bar 20. Althrou-gh two orifices are shown in the drawingfo-r the reception of initials it will be apparent that, without anychange in the principle of the invention, a greater or less number oforifices may be provided.

The neck II is preferably provided with a spur or projection 2| to aidin retaining the skirt I4 in releasable engagement with the neck, andthe skirt I4 somewhere near its upper end is provided with a spur 22 toaid in retaining the sleeve I6 in releasable engagement with the skirt.

It will be understood that the initials I8 are retained in position inthe sleeve I6 solely by being seated in the ledges I9 and by theirengagement with the external surface of the skirt I4.

To insert initials, or to replace positioned initials by others, the capwith the sleeve is removed from the body I0 of the lipstick holder.Thereafter the sleeve I6 is drawn downwardly from the skirt I4. This maybe done by either exerting a pull on the sleeve or by holding the sleevefirmly in the fingers and pushing the cap unwardly therefrom. When thelower flange I9 has been moved an appropriate distance below the loweredge of the skirt I4 initials, if any, then present in the ledges I9will drop out and new initials may be inserted by passing such initialsupwardly into the orifices therefor, the last part of the insertingmotion being accomplished by pushing the sleeve as a whole up until itsupper edge strikes the bead I5. If no initials were initially present ofcourse the removal of the initials is unnecessary.

To facilitate the insertion and removal of initials the distance betweenthe upper edge |60. of the sleeve I6 and the top of the upper ledge I9is greater than the distance between the lower edge H51;` of the sleeveand the lower edge of the lower ledge I9. By reason of this constructionthe distance which the initials must 4originally be inserted iscomparatively small so that the amount of manipulation required ininserting the initials is reduced to a minimum thereby enabling even anunskilled operator to insert and remove initials in a very short time.

While I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to provide a greatvariety of indicia holders for diierent kinds of objects, I believe I amthe rst to provide a construction embodying the orificed sleeve having africtional t with a part of the device in which the indicia is to appearand which sleeve is capable of ready application to and removal fromfapart of the article in order that initials or other indicia may beeasily and quickly inserted and exchanged when desired.

To avoid cumbersomeness of expression the claims will be directed to alipstick holder but it will be readily understood that holders for othercosmetics and containers of different kinds to which the invention isapplicable are deemed to be included in this expression.

I claim:

1. A lipstick holder comprising a body portion having a neck and a capmember comprising a dome and a skirt portion releasably engageable withsaid neck, the combination therewith of a sleeve frictionally andreleasably engageable with the outer surface of said skirt and providedwith at least one orifice for the reception of initials, means at theedges of said orificesfor supporting said initials and beads carried bythe body and cap portions respectively against which opposite edges ofsaid sleeve are adapted to engage when the cap member is in position onthe body portion.

2. A lipstick holder comprising a body portion having a neck and a capmember comprising a dome and a skirt releasably engageable with theouter surface of said neck, the combination therewith of a sleevefrictionally and releasably engageable with the outer surface of saidskirt and provided with initial receiving orifices, means adjacent theedges of such orices for supporting said initials in position, therebeing a greater distance between the upper edge of said orifices and theupper edge of said sleeve than between the lower edge of said orificesand the lower edge of said sleeve, a bead carried by the body member andadapted to be engaged by the lower edge of the sleeve and a bead carriedby the cap member and adapted to be engaged by the upper edge of saidsleeve.

ARTHUR MAINZER.

